Tuesday, January 2, 2018

The important thing to bear in mind inall communications about Ahed Tamimi, who will be 17 on Jan 31st, is that she is a survivor of years and
years of child abuse by her parents - supported and urged on to further abuse
by the PA, Hamas and far too many UK politicians.

Not only is using children as combatants and participants in
an armed conflict cild abuse— it is a war crime, defined as such by a specific
protocol of the UN.

Even if she is now technically an adult, she is, having
endured this child abuse for at least ten years, a vulnerable adult, whose
greatest need is for care and protection from further abuse of this kind, which
exploits her vulnerability.